Then I came across something that got me to change my mind. It's been
a while since I found a tea gadget worth buying, and this one certainly
is. It's called UtiliTea, and I found it on Adagio Teas website (via
Coolhunting). It's an electric kettle. (You have an electric kettle
by now, yes? It boils water much more efficiently than the antiquated
stove top kettles. One simply can't be a tea snob without one.) The UtiliTea is not
just any old electric kettle, mind you, it has settings that
allow you to boil water up to certain temperatures, so that the water
destined for green tea can stop at just below boiling and water for
black tea will be heated to full, rocking boil, for example.

This is such a brilliant idea I wondered why no one had thought of it
before. No more watching the regular kettle so you can stop the heat
at just the moment bubbles begin to form, and no more waiting for the
water you accidentally let go fully boiled cools down enough so that it
wouldn't burn a delicate green tea, like the Kawanecha I drank this
morning. Brilliant idea.

Then I came across something that got me to change my mind. It's been
a while since I found a tea gadget worth buying, and this one certainly
is. It's called UtiliTea, and I found it on Adagio Teas website (via
Coolhunting). It's an electric kettle. (You have an electric kettle
by now, yes? It boils water much more efficiently than the antiquated
stove top kettles. One simply can't be a tea snob without one.) The UtiliTea is not
just any old electric kettle, mind you, it has settings that
allow you to boil water up to certain temperatures, so that the water
destined for green tea can stop at just below boiling and water for
black tea will be heated to full, rocking boil, for example.

This is such a brilliant idea I wondered why no one had thought of it
before. No more watching the regular kettle so you can stop the heat
at just the moment bubbles begin to form, and no more waiting for the
water you accidentally let go fully boiled cools down enough so that it
wouldn't burn a delicate green tea, like the Kawanecha I drank this
morning. Brilliant idea.